Quiet Courage:
The Civilian Experience of World War II

Fiction:

A Woman's Place, Lynn Austin
Billy Boyle: A World War II Mystery, James R. Benn
The First Wave: A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery, James R. Benn
Dream When You're Feeling Blue, Elizabeth Berg
The Chestnut Tree, Charlotte Bingham
Skeletons at the Feast, Chris Bohjalian
On Wings of the Morning, Marie Bostwick
Restless, William Boyd
A Sound like Thunder, Sonny Brewer
All the Conspirators, Carlos Bulosan
Bel Ria: Dog of War, Sheila Burnford
The Creator's Map, Emilio Calderón
The Wedding Officer, Anthony Capella
Street Boys, Lorenzo Carcaterra
A Kiss from Maddalena, Christopher Castellani
The Glimmer Palace, Beatrice Colin
Lambrusco, Ellen Cooney
The Navigation Log, Martin Corrick
Tallgrass, Sandra Dallas
Forests of the Night: A Johnny Hawke Novel, David Stuart Davies
The Welsh Girl, Peter Ho Davies
The Truth of the Matter, Robb Forman Dew
Churchill's Triumph: A Novel of Betrayal, Michael Dobbs
Silesian Station, David Downing
The Savior, Eugene Drucker
Two O’Clock Eastern Wartime, John Dunning
The Photograph, Virginia Ellis
Hornet Flight, Ken Follett
The Invisible Country, H.E. Francis
Spies, Michael Frayn
Blood of Victory, Alan Furst
The Spies of Warsaw, Alan Furst
The Last Full Measure: A Katy Green Mystery, Hal Glatzer
Another Green World, Richard Grant
Waterloo Station, Emily Grayson
Memory, Philippe Grimbert
The War Against Miss Winter, Kathryn Miller Haines
Meg, Charlotte Hardy
Five Quarters of the Orange, Joanne Harris
The Victory Club, Robin Lee Hatcher
The Discontinuity of Small Things, Kevin Haworth
The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzard
War Story, Sara Hely
Meeting at the Milestone, Sigurd Hoel
When the Elephants Dance, Tess Uriza Holthe
The Legend of Fire Horse Woman, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
The Lost Garden, Helen Humphreys
Night of Flames: A Novel of World War II, Douglas W. Jacobson
Dollmaker, J. Robert Janes
The Diplomat's Wife, Pam Jenoff
The Kommandant's Girl, Pam Jenoff
Chronicle In Stone, Ismail Kadare
Office of Innocence, Thomas Keneally
Hitler's Peace: A Novel of the Second World, Philip Kerr
Eva's Cousin, Sibylle Knauss
Carry Me Home, Sandra Kring
Up In Honey's Room, Elmore Leonard
Consequences, Penelope Lively
Making It Up, Penelope Lively
A Hatred for Tulips, Richard Lourie
Lovely Green Eyes, Arnošt Lustig
Sunrise on Kusatsu Harbor, Dan Maloney
The Alibi Club, Francine Mathews
Our Yanks, Margaret Mayhew
Those in Peril, Margaret Mayhew
Sweet and Lowdown, Lise McClendon
Downhill Chance, Donna Morrissey
The Man Who Rode Ampersand, Ferdinand Mount
The Deadly Embrace: A Novel of World War II, Robert J. Mrazek
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel, Louise Murphy
Suite Française, Irène Némirovsky
Sophia House, Michael D. O'Brien
When the Emperor Was Divine, Julie Otsuka
The Granville Affaire, Una-Mary Parker
In the Shadows of the Sun, Alexander Parsons
A Presumption of Death, Jill Paton Walsh
Somewhere a Song, Judith Pella
Toward the Sunrise, Judith Pella
Written on the Wind, Judith Pella
The Last Goodbye, Margaret Pemberton
Silent Star, Tracie Peterson
The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
Killing Rommel, Steven Pressfield
The Pieces from Berlin, Michael Pye
The Border of Truth, Victoria Redel
Damned Good Show, Derek Robinson
Sarah's Key, Tatiana de Rosnay
A Thread of Grace, Mary Doria Russell
Too Darn Hot, Sandra Scoppettone
Liberation, Joanna Scott
Unforgiving Years, Victor Serge
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer
Ice Road, Gillian Slovo
December 6, Martin Cruz Smith
Letter from the Tower, Kay Stephens
Roman Spring, Sally Stewart
Gardenias, Faith Sullivan
The Caldwell Girls, Rowena Summers
The Rules of Perspective, Adam Thorpe
Nikolai's Fortune, Solveig Torvik
Snow Island, Katherine Towler
Ordinary Heroes, Scott Turow
Touch the Face of God: A WWII Novel, Robert Vaughan
Farewell, Shanghai, Angel Wagenstein
Never Say Never, Elizabeth Waite
Safe Return Home, Elizabeth Waite
April in Paris, Michael Wallner
The Traitor, Guy Walters
The Night Watch, Sarah Waters
The Forger, Paul Watkins
My Enemy's Cradle, Sara Young
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

Nonfiction:

World War II on the Air:
Edward R. Murrow and the Broadcasts That Riveted a Nation,
Mark Bernstein  070.92 BER

Let Me Go, Helga Schneider  306.8743 SCH

Sins of the Innocent: A Memoir, Mireille Marokvia  813.54 MAR

Panther Soup: Travels Through Europe In War and Peace,
John Gimlette  914 GIM

When We Were One: Stories of World War II,
W.C. Heinz  940.53 HEI

World War II,
Carl J. Schneider and Dorothy Schneider  940.53 SCH

Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1000 World War II Refugees
and How They Came to America, Ruth Gruber  940.5308691 GRU

The Flamboya Tree: Memories of a Mother's Wartime Courage,
Clara Olink Kelly  940.53175 KEL

When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption,
Wesley Adamczyk  940.531758 ADA

The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story,
Diane Ackerman  940.5318 ACK

Hidden From the Holocaust: Stories of Resilient Children Who Survived and Thrived,
Kerry Bluglass  940.5318 BLU

Michelangelo in Ravensbrück: One Woman's War Against the Nazis,
Karolina Lanckorońska  940.5318 LAN

First Words: A Childhood in Fascist Italy,
Rosetta Loy  940.5318 LOY

Maus: A Survivor's Tale, I: My Father Bleeds History,
Art Spiegelman  940.5318 SPI

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale
and Here My Troubles Began,
Art Spiegelman  940.5318 SPI

Night, Elie Wiesel  940.5318 WIE

Until Our Last Breath: A Holocaust Story of Love and Partisan Resistance,
Michael Bart  940.5318092 BAR

We Are On Our Own: A Memoir,
Miriam Katin  940.5318092 KAT

Kasztner's Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust,
Anna Porter  940.5318092 POR

The Forger, Cioma Schönhaus  940.5318092 SCH

Shards of Memory: Narratives of Holocaust Survival,
Yehudi Lindeman  940.5318092 SHA

The Heart Has Reasons: Holocaust Rescuers and Their Stories of Courage,
Mark Klempner  940.531835 KLE

The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom  940.53492 TEN

Time at War, Nicholas Mosley  940.541241 MOS

The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice,
Alex Kershaw  940.542142 KER

Barefoot Gen. Volume One, A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima,
Keiji Nakazawa  940.5425 NAK

Reflections of Pearl Harbor: An Oral History of December 7, 1941,
K. D. Richardson  940.5426 RIC

The Day I Fired Alan Ladd and Other World War II Adventures,
A. E. Hotchner  940.544 HOT

The Labyrinth of Dangerous Hours: A Memoir of the Second World War,
Lilka Trzcinska-Croydon  940.547243 TRZ

The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom,
Slavomir Rawicz  940.547247 RAW

Rescued By Mao: World War II, Wake Island, and My Remarkable Escape to Freedom Across Mainland China,
William Taylor  940.547252 TAY

As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me,
Josef M. Bauer  940.5472573 BAU

Trains of Thought: Memories of a Stateless Youth,
Victor H. Brombert  940.5481 BRO

Evader,
T. D. G. Teare  940.548141 TEA

German Boy: A Child in War,
Wolfgang W. E. Samuel  940.548143 SAM

No Tears in Ireland: A Memoir,
Sylvia Couturié  940.548144 COU

The Hitler Kiss: A Memoir of the Czech Resistance,
Radomír Luza  940.5482437 LUZ

The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France,
Simon Kitson  940.548644 KIT

On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood,
Irmgard Hunt  943.36 HUN

Shanghai Diary: A Young Girl's Journey from Hitler's Hate to War-Torn China,
Ursula Bacon  951.132 BAC

The Kennedys Amidst the Gathering Storm:
A Thousand Days In London, 1938-1940,
Will Swift  973.9092 SWI

Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack: A Boyhood Year During World War II,
Charles Osgood  975.26042 OSG

Never Give Up: A Biography of Thomas L. Thomas,
Cheryl Price  B THOMAS

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